As new software components become available for an existing system, we can evolve not only the system itself but also its requirements based on the new components. In this paper, ...
Evolving an existing software system is fundamentally different from developing one from scratch. Consequently, tools to support evolution must go beyond traditional development t...
More than 90% of the cost of software is due to maintenance and evolution. Understanding the evolution of large software systems is a complex problem, which requires the use of va...
As agile software development principles and methods are being adopted by large software product organizations it is important to understand the role of software entropy. That is,...
In this paper, we describe a framework for the computeraided evolution of the designs of object-oriented software systems. Evolution mechanisms are software structures that prepar...